Exodus - 5:11



11 Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"

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Explanation and meaning of Exodus 5:11.

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Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Go yourselves, get you straw where ye can find it: for nought of your work shall be diminished.
Go, and gather it where you can find it: neither shall any thing of your work be diminished.
go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.
Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.
ye, go ye, take for yourselves straw where ye find it, for there is nothing of your service diminished.'
Go you, get you straw where you can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Go yourselves and get dry stems wherever you are able; for your work is not to be any less.
Go, and collect it wherever you are able to find it. Neither will anything of your work be diminished."
Vos ite colligite vobis paleas, ubicunque inveneritis: quia non est imminutum quicquam ex opere vestro.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Go ye, get ye straw, where you can find it,.... Before it was provided by the king, and brought to the brickkilns, but now they are bid to go and fetch it themselves, and get it where they could, whether in fields or barns; and if they were obliged to pay for it out of their labour; it was a greater oppression still:
yet not ought of your work shall be diminished; they were to do the same work, and make the same number of bricks, as when straw was brought and given them; and no allowance made for waste of time in seeking, or expenses in procuring straw, which was very hard upon them.

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